Synonyms
Examples for "Spanish moss"
Examples for "Spanish moss"
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Above our heads the Spanish moss hung from the trees in beautiful drapery.
2
Festoons of Spanish moss, drooped like a mourning veil from bough to bough.
3
And to the delight of Will, the long streamers of Spanish moss hung everywhere.
4
I enclose a sprig of Spanish moss from a cypress-tree near the village jail.
5
The pool reflected up into some Spanish moss hanging from the closest oak limbs.
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I was glad that the dark hid the whiteness of the old man's beard from my view.
2
Gidge takes part of the old man's beard and uses it as a pillow to sleep on.
3
Then the youth seized the ax, split the anvil with one blow, and struck the old man's beard in with it.
4
Then the youth took up an axe, and, splitting the anvil at one blow, wedged the old man's beard in it.
5
The draftsman has not forgotten this detail: the old man's beard spreads in a snowy avalanche over the apron and comes down to his knees.
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Weeds waved from the crevices, and in places black moss splotched the otherwise bald stones.
2
His way lay through a wide tract of black moss, extending for miles on each side and before him.
3
On several occasions we found these birds on the highest summits where there was nothing but rocks covered with black moss.
4
Sometimes a kind of black moss grows upon them, and tiny bits of white lichen, giving together a curious tortoiseshell look.
5
The best soil for it appears to be a pure quartz sand, which in some places rests on black moss or mould.
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It kills the long moss, but the green mold it does not seem to affect.
2
The huge double gate of Thonbec had stood open so long moss had grown on the hinges.
3
And taking a strand of the long moss he scraped the greenish gray outside off, leaving a black strand like a horse hair.
4
"That is Spanish moss, also called long moss," explained Mr. Brown.